JOHANNESBURG: Google will pay more than $40 million to support South African news media, many of them floundering in a digital age, the country’s competition authority said Thursday.Tech giants, including TikTok, X and Facebook, have come under fire for anti-trust practices that the watchdog says hurt local media by limiting their ability to distribute and…
Claim: A video authentically shows a “racist cop” kicking a Black FBI agent out of a coffee shop. Rating: Rating: Fake A rumor that circulated online in November 2025 claimed a video showed a “racist cop” kicking a Black FBI agent out of a coffee shop. On Nov. 10, a user managing the Bowmayladastory Facebook…
It’s Z hottest matchmaking app on the map. Facebook is finally clicking with Gen Zers on the market, as singles in their 20s are turning to the decades-old site’s “Dating” feature for love. “Facebook Dating has me in a chokehold — I’m literally obsessed,” Lexa, 27, admitted in a viral vid, after confessing she’d previously thought that…
Claim: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow revealed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s wife’s ties to a hidden LLC suspiciously linked to multimillion-dollar transactions on live television. Rating: Rating: False A rumor that circulated online in late October 2025 claimed MSNBC television host Rachel Maddow exposed — on live television — that the wife of Speaker…
Hong Kong’s Au Ho-chun claimed a bronze medal in the men’s 1,500m at the Asian Youth Games in Bahrain, securing the city’s first podium of the competition. The 16-year-old clocked four minutes 5.09 seconds to finish third, behind Sri Lanka’s gold medallist Achintha Lahiru, who broke the youth games record with a time of 3:57.42,…
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A Facebook feature that gives Meta AI the ability to suggest edits to photos stored on your phone’s camera roll, but haven’t yet been shared, is now rolling out to all users in the U.S. and Canada. The company announced on Friday that users can choose to opt in to receive these sharing suggestions, which…
Meta is shutting down its Messenger app for macOS and Windows and pushing users to the web. Meta confirmed over email to Engadget that the app will be fully shutdown on December 15, after which the easiest ways to access Messenger chats when you’re not on your phone will be the Facebook app on Windows,…
Meta is shutting down Messenger’s standalone desktop apps for Windows and Mac on December 15, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Starting December 15, users will no longer be able to log into the apps and will be automatically redirected to the Facebook website to access Messenger. “If you’re using the Messenger desktop apps,…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says young people should learn from the journeys of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs, but also remember that their paths are unusual. Speaking at Italian Tech Week recently, Jeff Bezos said college dropouts who went on to build some of the world’s biggest technology companies are the “exception,” not…